Britain’s NHS is launching a world-first trial of a “groundbreaking” artificial intelligence tool that can identify patients at risk of type 2 diabetes more than a decade before they develop the condition.
More than 500 million people worldwide have type 2 diabetes, and finding new ways to detect people at risk before they develop the condition is a major global health priority.
An estimated 1 billion people will have type 2 diabetes by 2050, according to The Guardian.
The technology could detect the condition 13 years before diagnosis
This condition is one of the leading causes of blindness, kidney failure, heart attacks, strokes and amputation of lower limbs. It is often linked to being overweight, inactive or having a family history of type 2 diabetes, although not all people diagnosed fall into these categories.
Now doctors and scientists have developed an artificial intelligence tool that can predict people at risk of the condition 13 years before it starts to develop.
The technology analyzes electrocardiogram (ECG) results during routine heart scans. It can detect subtle changes, too small to be seen by the human eye, that could raise an early warning signal that a patient is on the way to developing type 2 diabetes.
This could allow for interventions and possibly help people avoid the condition altogether, for example through dietary and lifestyle changes.
Artificial Intelligence, “enormous potential”
The NHS will start testing the tool in 2025 at Imperial College healthcare NHS trust and Chelsea and Westminster hospital NHS foundation trust, and will be the first health system in the world to do so, The Guardian has learned.
Those involved in developing the technology, called AI-ECG risk estimation for diabetes mellitus (Aire-DM), hope it could be rolled out across the health service in England and other countries within the next few years.
“AI has enormous potential to transform care that could lead to substantial improvements in healthcare,” said Dr. Libor Pastika, researcher.
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Source: www.descopera.ro
